After the Parting

<p>Meier's <em>After the Parting</em> is a vast intricately composed collection that maps grief memory history and selfhood across layered geographies and deep time. Moving through poetic sequences that engage with ancient seas mythic landscapes familial remnants and political ghosts the collection blends lyric intensity with philosophical inquiry. The language is both meditative and hallucinatory attentive to loss and transformation drawing from Chinese European and diasporic perspectives. Formally varied and richly textured it constructs a poetics of distance-temporal spatial and emotional-while constantly gesturing toward connection.</p>